About

Smarter Relationship Management

Apps to connect with the people that matter most.

Professional relationships form every day. They are the lifeblood of
business and critical to our success. They grow and evolve. Some are
steady and with you for a lifetime, others last
only for a fleeting moment as they fly by in a Tweet or an email.
A few start at work and become personal or vice-versa. And who is
important today will be different next week or next year.

As technology has evolved and the number of ways we communicate has expanded,
our networks have grown beyond what we can possibly keep track of on
our own. We may have tens of thousands of contacts squirreled away in
email and social feeds. And, at work we meet at
least one new person per day. Double or triple that if you are in sales
or any client-facing role.

Unfortunately all of the important stuff about our relationships —
our "relationship gold" is trapped. It's trapped in our email,
meetings, phone calls, notes, documents and our work software too —
and spread across a dozen apps or more. Leaving us with lots of
manual work to stitch it together in a meaningful way. And no easy way
to keep on top of it all without a roomful of assistants briefing you
on what you need to know today, reminding you where you left off and
when to follow-up.

Cloze is a step forward. Beyond the old address book that, even as an app,
is just a collection of names and numbers. Beyond empty
boxes like CRM that view people only as transactions that can
be "won" or "lost". We founded Cloze to unlock your "relationship gold".
We’ve designed Cloze to be automatic and smart. It eliminates the
busy-work you hate and brings data science to your relationships
to give you an edge and make your day a little less hectic.

Name

Cloze is a familiar word for teachers. A cloze exercise is a fill-in-the-blank test
where words have been removed and the student is asked to insert the missing words.
With information spread across so many sources it often feels like we are mentally
trying to fill in the blanks just to get a complete picture of our contacts in one
place. Cloze is also a nod to closing -- the satisfaction we get when we close out
a task or when we win the big deal ("always be closing").

Investors

Cloze is a venture-backed company based in Somerville, MA. We are funded by our
friends at Greylock Partners, Kepha Partners, and NextView Ventures. We were
founded in 2012.

We're Hiring

We are looking for engineers that can work on anything. We move fast. We do stuff
no one else has done. Expertise in node.js, Cassandra, Hadoop, html5, and
jquery is required. Interested? Get in touch.

Connect with us

Interested in learning more about what we’re up to? Connect with us
here or @cloze.